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Worm uploaded into robot body
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Scientists have uploaded a worm's brain into a Lego robot.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/21/tech/mci-l...index.html

They're going to need to step up the pace to have my Apollo R3000 ready by the time I need a body replacement.
Mike Miller, Materials Engineer
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"Everbody's always in favor of saving Hitler's brain, but when you put it in the body of a great white shark, oh, suddenly you've gone too far." -- Professor Farnsworth, Futurama
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After some discussion about this experiment in January:

http://www.orionsarm.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1289

We came to the conclusion that this is basically a partial simulation of a worm's mind but it's not really uploading, because the synaptic weights of an individual worm cannot be read out yet.
"Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people." -- Edward Robert Harrison
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D'oh! Missed it.
Mike Miller, Materials Engineer
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"Everbody's always in favor of saving Hitler's brain, but when you put it in the body of a great white shark, oh, suddenly you've gone too far." -- Professor Farnsworth, Futurama
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